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I think everyone should have a happy place.
When I was seven years old I would walk down to a stream not far from my house. Beside it was a weeping willow. I would crawl under its branches and watch all the goings on in the creek: the frogs, the skipping bugs, the butterflies. Even at that age I was journaling. I would write poetry and bad Narnia fan fiction!
I still like hanging out in natural surroundings. I also love sitting at an outdoor cafe, and chatting or reading a book I have just picked up from the library.
So, do you have any happy places?
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I like places where all I can hear is the wind in the trees. One of the best places for this is Walker Pass (south end of the Sierra Nevada) where the trees are Joshua trees.
I am also quite fond of the mouth of the Klamath river.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Oddly, I tend to dislike games. I'm much too serious, I guess.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Wait! Diaspora is my Happy Place!
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(I Just) Died In Your Arms ~ Cutting Crew
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[I Just] Died In Your Arms
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Joseph Teller
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Physical places are hard for me to be happy about, they always change on me. I used to have places to sit and rest my mind and feel momentarily in the moment and not overwhelmed by painful change but they are all gone, both in nature and among people. All my old 'haunts' are nearly gone now, time having taken them or urban development or the passing of the people associated with them.
I used to be more RL social than I am now... my online acquaintances now are a means to find some common connection with someone besides my wife and my few surviving distant rl friends and family. Covide did a number on everything in my life even though I managed to never get it, along with my own physical limitations and the horrible political landscape and how its affecting the city I chose as home.
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some refuge in reading these days, but few and far between...
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • •Happy place is in movement, I think. Sure the garden I had around the house as a kid was huuuge and the lake and all, but.. they meant exploring the hidden corners, bushes, old walls, crumbling bricks. It never got boring until maybe I was 16 years old and other activites were more promising. :)
So a garden, yeah, but a German proverb says resting is rusting. So happy place implies moving about the space, which can be as big as a city, as playground for #ingress. Or it might be a fun walk watching doggo interacting, exploring and getting wet in instantaneous friendships.
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Mark Wollschlager
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Often fleeting, but fairly easy to reclaim even for a short time.
I am in constant awe of the world around me, having lived a 'charmed life' that has not turned the world against me.
But to be a little more specific,a sunny day in a field, a music concert, a mountain top, dinner with friends, snuggling with a loved one.
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I enjoy sitting outdoors—but being so attractive to mosquitoes, I must do so in a screened enclosure (or sit in full sun, which is still a bad idea for a paleface on the redhead spectrum even though we've raised my vitamin D levels above "barely readable" 😬).
I discovered this by sitting in screened enclosures at my parents' homes.
I have not once, ever, succeeded in having a screened enclosure at any of my own homes. That is one of the myriad unfinished projects here. 😒 On paper there briefly was one at our previous house, but it had been slapped together with indoor wood and rapidly disintegrated after we moved in. Plus it turned out I was allergic to the endless supply of decaying leaves there, so I probably could not have sat outside anyway.
We also enjoyed very much walking on the beach. In fact that's why we moved here in particular—it's the only form of "exercise" I've ever enjoyed. I think we got out there once since we moved 3 years ago. Now Mr. Stranger can't walk like that. I'm air-hungry again from lack of B12, so I probably couldn't either.
My happy places run away from me. They get within tantalizing reach, then... poof
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I've noticed over the years that people seem to be either water people or mountain and desert people. I'm a child of the mountains. I've seen the Atlantic and the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, and I've seen Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Each time, I was unimpressed. I looked for a few seconds and wandered off to do something else. I can happily spend all day tramping around the mountains or the dry hills of a desert, though.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •i've managed to survive thus far.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I'm unfamiliar with that one. "Off" used to make one that worked really well. The first version had louvers that closed to preserve the repellent solution for the next use. The second "improved" version ditched the louvers, thereby making each (very expensive) repellent pad single-use (for up to 12 hrs, who uses one for that long?). Now it seems they have stopped making them altogether.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •happy place songs:
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Wayne Shorter - Footprints (Live At Montreux 1991)
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libramoon
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •when I was a kid there was near my home an overpass with a short stone wall beyond the sidewalk as barrier against falling to the busy highway below. I liked to go there and write poetry, watching the mesmerizing traffic and imagining marvelous places they could all be going.
In the story I am presently writing, the central character has a happy place several times mentioned, a theater stage where she liked to dance, rehearsing choreography or just trancing out
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Torrey Pines Beach, San Diego Zoo/Balboa Park, my own back yard.
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in reply to Karl Auerbach • •I was going to say 我不知道，別問我！不是故意的~ Dont ask me, I don't kn...
Then again, I screenshotted a map of Taipei with markings of where I walked, and which came up in Chinese for me, so you get to benefit from that too.
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